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You Will Eat a Hot Tub's Worth of Corn Syrup Before You Die

Graphic: NYT

Above, an infographic from the New York Times of the amount of high-fructose corn syrup the average American consumes in a day, week, month, year and lifetime, based on 2009 USDA estimates. The hot tub really adds a nice "ew" factor, don't you think? Anyway, it's the week of gross added sugar imagery, we guess, since Jamie Oliver filled a school bus with sand to represent the added sugar Los Angeles school kids consume in a week from drinking flavored milk.

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